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the list on p. ci. since, as stated, this is merely a list of sources princi- 

 pally used, and Mr. Moffat's list furnished fewer records than some 

 dozens of others which are likewise omitted. Almost every important 

 record contained in this list appears in published papers by Mr. Moffat 

 or others, to which he will find all due credit is given in the proper 



places. 



R. IvI^OYD Praeger. 



Spiranthes Romanzoffiana in Antrim. 



Mr. William West, F.Iy.S., of Bradford, sends me a fresh specimen of 

 Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, from Co. Antrim. He writes that he found it 

 between Antrim and Toonie, growing in fair quantity in rather damp grassy 

 places among Spiraa Ulniaria, Achillcea Plarmica, Comarum palustre, &c. 

 on July 31st. A fourth northern station for this extremely rare orchid is 

 most welcome. It is worthy of note that all the Ulster localities, in 

 Armagh, Antrim, and Londonderry, are situated in the basin of the River 

 Bann. That four stations for this plant should be discovered in ten 

 years in so well worked a part of Ireland as the north-east, is one of the 

 most remarkable features of recent research in Irish botany. 



R. 1,1,0yd Praeger. 



Pyrola secunda refound in Ireland. 



After an interval of over sixty years this interesting plant has been 

 again found in Ireland. On August 2nd Mr. W. N. Tetley, of Portora 

 Royal School, brought me two fine specimens collected by him at Carrol 

 Glen, near Carrick Lake, Co. Fermanagh, on June 26th last. Mr. Tetley 

 describes the plant as growing on a rough ledge of limestone rocks. He 

 saw only one patch of it, but did not search for more. 



P. secunda is a characteristic plant of the Scottish type of distribution. 

 In Ireland, its only previous stations — four in number — were in the 

 Counties of Antrim and Derry, where it was discovered by Dr. Moore 

 about the year 1835, and has never been refound in spite of repeated 

 searches by various botanists in the definite stations recorded. Mr. 

 Tetley is to be congratulated on a most interesting discovery. 



In connection with this plant Mr. S. A. Stewart sends me the follow- 

 ing important note : — 



Pyrola secunda. — I find in the Belfast Museum a specimen which had 

 been overlooked both by myself and Corry. We said in the Flora N.E.L 

 that it was first found in Ireland by Moore. Not so ; we have a specimen 

 labelled " Derry, Mr. Brown." Now, this must have been Robert Brown, 

 who lived in Derry about 1S01 or 1S02. There is no date or special 

 locality for our specimen. These omissions were too common a century 

 ago, and even later. In this connection I ma)' mention that Pyrola 

 secunda was one of the plants for which D. Moore was awarded a prize 

 at the fete in the Belfast Botanic Gardens in 1838 (Coronation Fete). 



R. IyI<OYD PRAEGER. 



Dublin. 



